Is battery unhooked necessary?

[Glen4X4]

So I'm goin to sometime this week/weekend install a head unit in the 96 and was readin in the haynes manual that you need to d/c the battery before you take procedure something about the airbags deploying.....is this necessary to do? I don't think I did it when I put one in the malibu, but the explorer is a whole diff. vehicle so if this is necessary, how long should I have it unhooked for before taking procedure into doing it? I'm gunna hopefully have a harnest to hook straight into the factory wiring harnest so hopefully I won't need to chop up wires. K thank ya'll!

 

[steventadams]

i dont know how necessary it is but it takes all of 10 seconds to take off the negative terminal so i dont see why there would be any reason not to...

 

[Glen4X4]

Yea....I know but I didn't know if it was necessary.

 

[Charlie]

I didn't disconnect the battery for mine with no problems. I have a 96, though. I would go for it anyway.

 

[Jason94sport]

No, but it's a good idea. Just cause you never know. You may pull a wire & not think about it & bam short something. The airbags are ok. They are hard to blow actually.
The usually disarm procedure is to disconnect the - Then the + & let site for 10 minutes. This should be enough to disarm the system.

 

[Glen4X4]

Mmk...thanks, this is my first 2nd gen, stuff like that on the 92 aint gotta worry bout.

 

[toypaseo]

No, but it's a good idea. Just cause you never know. You may pull a wire & not think about it & bam short something. The airbags are ok. They are hard to blow actually.
The usually disarm procedure is to disconnect the - Then the + & let site for 10 minutes. This should be enough to disarm the system.

My ex-Ford mechanic neighbor told me that the airbags are easily activated :scratch:

 

[Jason94sport]

Not in my experience.

 

[anti*commander]

a buddy of mine had a few airbags, we were trying to deploy them with a car battery and nothing, so we ended up just cutting up an extension cord and putting 120 volts through it, that made em go

 

[DMacLennan14]

i have been doing car audio for 10 years and have not once disconnected the negative terminal. im not saying that its not a good idea to do, cause it is better to be safe than sorry, but i have never had a problem.

 

[Burns]

I have not either. Im extra protective while doing the work tho.

 

[Glen4X4]

I didn't think it were necessary since I didn't think about it with the malibu and still did the stereo in it while the ignition was on....and prob. one wrong mix wire could do that, and I don't want a punch in the chest and head from an airbag ever again...so I guess when I do this, I might as well take the extra 2 minutes and take the terminal off.